Posts Tagged ‘learning’

Mean girls and drama queens make the movies (and blogs), but this is a post about shy girls.  Schools, colleges, I suppose even work places, are full of them.  They quietly do their work and silently get the job done.  They don’t make waves, they don’t raise their voices, and often they don’t raise their [...]

Osvaldo came to school crying again.  Three day weekend, and he’d lost the habit of school.  I want my mommy, he sniffled.  I’m scared to go to school.  Is far away.
Now I know for a fact that Osvaldo lives three blocks from the school.  I know that when you walk, especially if you’re an Angelino [...]

OMG.  It’s not a fluke (as I half-feared when I went to bed last night).  They really are tamer.  Calmer.  More focused.  And most importantly, LEARNING!
I’ve never had a class like this one, where I doubted on a daily basis my ability to get through to them and teach them the standards they’re supposed to [...]

We had a lovely day last Monday.  Worked excitedly on all sorts of new words: yank, topple, wince, wide grin, heartwarming, corduroy, infant, sum, addend, process, cobble, shards, pulverize, currents, grains, weathering.  Read them in context, discussed them out of context, acted them out, placed them in new contexts, shared personal experiences that related to [...]